News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Life Support Corporation, its owners, Nazariy Kmet, 35, of Jamison, PA, and Bogdan Kmet, 30, of Warminster, PA, and a company manager, Rostislav Kmet, 26, of Philadelphia, were charged in a 12-count indictment, unsealed today, alleging their involvement in health care fraud, wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Frackville, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to fifteen months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Amanda Marshall, U. S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, today announced that William R. Peters, 63, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, a former member of the Board of Directors of National Relief Charities (NRC), has been charged with conspiring to defraud NRC of $4 million and conspiring...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that examined the emerging regulatory, law enforcement, and consumer protection challenges with virtual currencies.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Duncan: [We] write to ensure that the Department of Education is doing everything it can to protect students who will be displaced or disadvantaged as a result of the impending sale or closure of Corinthian College Incorporated’s campuses nationwide. Over the past several years we have...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cristian Gutierrez, 22, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to child pornography and child sexual abuse charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Clark Settles, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Washington, D.C., and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYLON VAUGHN, also known as “Bucky B," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, a federal jury has convicted Dr. Abbas Zahedi of Carrolton, Texas, and Reginald Guy of Arlington, Texas, on all counts of a superseding indictment charging each with one count of conspiracy to commit health care...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -Kevin Thomas, 51, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by information, filed yesterday, with making a material false statement, in connection with his false certifications relating to rental assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of Tropical Storm Lee announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment in Operation Road Block, an extensive investigation into a drug trafficking network operating in the Baton Rouge region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - The owner of a trucking company in southern West Virginia pleaded guilty today for failing to collect and pay federal employment taxes announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Richard L. Bailey, Jr., of Fayetteville, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to two federal tax charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lee Wayne Weathers, 41, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced in federal court this morning to 60 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today issued the following joint statement after the Supreme Court struck down President Obama’s unconstitutional appointments to the National Labor Relations Board...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lonnie Ray Youngman, 45, was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 38 months if federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on assault with a dangerous weapon and domestic assault by a habitual offender charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Walter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: The Defendant Was A Member Of A Sophisticated Burglary Crew That Stole Approximately $10,000,000 In Cash And Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Elledge, who schemed to obtain controlled substances from local pharmacies, has pleaded guilty to impersonating a federal officer, making false statements to law enforcement, and attempting to obtain fraudulent prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: A woman who sold synthetic drugs commonly called “K2" and “bath salts" was convicted by a jury today after a 3-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Pamela J. Beard, 52, of Bowie, Md., was sentenced today to three years in prison on a federal mail fraud charge stemming from the embezzlement of more than $3.6 million from her former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the recess of the Senate Finance Committee subject to the call of the chair in order to work with House leaders on creating a bipartisan bill to fund the Highway Trust Fund...
